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" Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride. "
John Lithgow
Sense
Pride
Own
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" I loved playing Roberta Muldoon! "
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" If you're an actor, you tend to fool yourself into thinking you're much younger than you are because you're playing parts and behaving like a child all the time. "
John Lithgow
Fool
Child
Yourself
" I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife. "
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Good
Wife
Hard
" I look around, and 50 percent of the big-budget entertainment you are seeing these days is dystopian. This is the era of 'Hunger Games' and blasted landscapes and 'The Walking Dead.' "
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Walking
Seeing
Dead
" I was on the Harvard board of overseers for six years, between 1989 and 1995. "
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Between
Years
Six
" Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music. "
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Story
Music
Look
" We're in the business of using real emotions to bring pretend emotions to life. "
John Lithgow
Bring
Real
Life
" Actors are not necessarily smart people. "
John Lithgow
Necessarily
People
Smart People
" I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20. "
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Shakespearean
Time
Plays
" I keep looking for things I haven't done yet. "
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Done
Looking
Things
" I'm a very slow and ponderous reader, but I'm dogged. "
John Lithgow
Slow
Reader
Very
" I eat way too fast. "
John Lithgow
Fast
Eat
Way
" The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered. "
John Lithgow
Up
Audience
Challenge
" I have a love/hate relationship with my height - I am 6 ft. 4 in. "
John Lithgow
Am
Height
I Am
" I'm as vain as the next person, but I've made so much fun of myself over the years, and that's very salutary as you grow older. "
John Lithgow
Grow
Person
You
" Grown adults often tell me that they used to sit, as children with their parents, and watch '3rd Rock from the Sun,' and they would all enjoy it for completely different reasons. I think that's part of the magic of the show. "
John Lithgow
Me
Think
Sun
" To my mum, I owe security in a very insecure young life. We lived in about 10 different places because of my father's chequered career, and she always made me feel a sense of consistency and security. I was a well-mothered boy. "
John Lithgow
Consistency
Security
Me
" My wife tells me I always have to have a project. A 'projectophile' or something. It's true. I always feel like the grass is growing under my feet. "
John Lithgow
Feel
Me
True
" In 1995, I proposed the Harvard Arts Medal. The idea was to celebrate the fact that, although it's rare, Harvard men and women do go into the creative arts. Over the years we've had major, major figures, like Jack Lemmon, John Updike, Yo-Yo Ma, and Bonnie Raitt. "
John Lithgow
Arts
Women
Men
" My very first role was when I was 2 1/2 years old; I was one of Nora's children in 'A Doll's House,' with my father playing Torvald. "
John Lithgow
Old
Doll
Children
" When I was 13 years old, I went to visit my aunt and uncle in Washington, D.C., and they just deposited me at the National Gallery. I would go from Rembrandt to Picasso - I remember that experience so vividly. "
John Lithgow
Me
Uncle
Experience
" It's not always easy to be proud of your government. "
John Lithgow
Government
Always
Easy
" I'm too much of a Libra. I too often see the other person's point of view and capitulate, even though I have strong political convictions. It's just my liability. Maybe I'm too empathetic. That's the actor in me. "
John Lithgow
Strong
Me
Political
" In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing. "
John Lithgow
Moment
Doing
Discovery
" When good things come along, you end up saying yes to them. Because they're rare. "
John Lithgow
End
Yes
You
" There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night. "
John Lithgow
Nothing
Audience
Evening
" An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too. "
John Lithgow
Father
Like
Feeling
" Anytime a culture is in economic stress, ugly things start happening. "
John Lithgow
Culture
Ugly
Stress
" The way I approach acting when there's a real life character, it's sort of like a Venn diagram. What I come up with is some amalgam of the two of us. "
John Lithgow
Real Life
Acting
Way
" If a film is about love, it tends to be about tortured love or discovering love or young love. It's not this wonderful kind of comfortable, old resilient love. "
John Lithgow
Kind
Film
Comfortable